universalize
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A chant that was intended to universalize the Kurdish struggle to women's democratic movements worldwide has been watered down.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
For Kant, an action or decision is moral if you can universalize it, which he formulates in the categorical imperative.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
This overhaul will, presumably, continue to universalize the Apple enthusiast’s experience across devices, especially in tandem with new continuity-focused features like Universal Control.
From The Verge ● Jun. 6, 2022
In “Telescope,” Alameddine attempts to universalize Mina’s experience on Lesbos, but not out of a callow urge to suggest that her dilemmas — or yours — are comparable to the Syrians’.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2021
The Redeemers who overthrew Reconstruction were inclined to retain such segregation practices as had already emerged, but they displayed no apparent disposition to expand or universalize the system.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Having just written an entire article about the dangers of universalized single-cause explanations, though, I would be remiss in putting the blame for dysfunction and discontent entirely on the media.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2024
“Mr. Brook, synthesizing all his previous theatrical inventions, did nothing less than attempt to transform Hindu myth into universalized art, accessible to any culture,” theater critic and journalist Margaret Croyden wrote in the Times.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2022
Yet, if everyone lied—that is if we universalized lying—then we would no longer achieve our desired end.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Moore’s paintbrush layers history in evocative ways, while inserting himself into a universalized scene pulls social havoc into the present.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2022
It is found that the less any desired motive is bound up with particular acts, persons, or ideas, the greater is the chance of its being universalized and made good for life all round.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill
It’s the kind of work that you expect to find at a show as noteworthy as the Biennial—powerful, universalizing, transportive—but one that this year is largely an exception to the other items on view.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Because the pandemic has affected everyone, we naturally assume that there must be some common experience to be found, that with the disease has come a set of universalizing truths.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2021
The first smart move was universalizing the benefit.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2021
Just as television has been a powerful force in the popularization of pro football, it has been irreplaceable in the universalizing of the draft.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2019
The second "quality" is the attractive, gravitating tendency which binds whole with whole as an organizing, universalizing energy.
From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus Matthew Jones
